Kodak DCS 520 Digital SLRs

Kodak DCS 520 Digital SLRs 

DESCRIPTION

  • Out-of-production
  • Canon EOS 1N body
  • Sensor: 1728 x 1152 CCD w. 36 Bit color
  • ISO range: 200 - 1600
  • Burst rate: 3.5 f/sec

  • USER REVIEWS

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    [Jan 29, 2003]
    Marc453sr
    Professional

    Strength:

    Canon and Kodak quality. Interchangable lenses 1.6X for telephoto lenses ISO 1600 speed 3.5~4 frames per second Quick operation and display on LCD of image. 1394 firewire connection. Ability to use PC Card Adapter, for Compactflash, etc.

    Weakness:

    Weight Abandonment by its parents Kodak and Canon Menu system-takes some getting used to.

    I'm a Canon person and have many Canon lenses and flashes. At work I use a Canon D60 and a Kodak DCS 1-c. I was thinking about getting the Kodak 720x because of its high ISO speed and that it shoots around five frames a second. But my loyalty to Canon won out when Imaging Spectrum said they had a refurbuished camera for only $1300.00. I got the camera in December and bought an extra battery. I also found some (two) 2GB Toshiba PC cards and use them (I get 877 pics per card). You can put two cards in the camera at once, but for some reason the camera doesn't quite like this. Sometimes it doesn't recognize one card, or it won't write to the card. The simple fix is to remove one card. Then the camera works beautifully. The best thing about this is the EOS-1 body. It's a tank! Also the body has been updated to accept the E-TTL 550EX flash. (There's been a lot of griping about this flash but It seems to work well for me.) One major conssesion that I've done is set the camera to use only the center led sensor in the viewfinder. This helps on focusing a whole lot. I'm sure it also helps with the flash too. I set the camera to turn off in 15 minutes which eliminates the turn off/on problem with most digital cameras. I have two Quantum turbo batteries, so I found a turbo cord that will allow me to power the camera from a turbo battery (quantum CD3) this works great and gives me a ton of power. You can use it with or without a Kodak battery in the camera so I think this is a major plus. I'm real sorry to see that Kodak and Canon discontinued their relationship because this is a major monster of a camera! Even with the small CCD (2mgs) everything else makes this an exceptional tool for photography. Another plus for this camera is the Kodak software, Photodesk it is rated as one of the best packages out there and it integrates well with Adobe Photoshop. This camera is one of the great ones and will be still working when a lot of others have been tossed in the trash.

    Customer Service

    Member of Canon CPS and have used Kodak professional service and rate both highly.

    Similar Products Used:

    All manners of 35mm film, medium format and large format cameras. Canon, Kodak and Nikon digital cameras.

    OVERALL
    RATING
    5
    VALUE
    RATING
    5
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